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- Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans in Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets their relationship's fragile balance.
- Drizzle/Zeng Jing tries to start a new life after she had betrayed her gang and hid the remains of monk.
- A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Jiayi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ke Jingteng, but he ends up loving her as well.
- One day when Pickle and his friend Belly Bottom watch the dashcam recordings of Pickle's boss they stumble upon a secret.
- Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a cruel murder.
- A terminally ill man sets up his best friend, whom he has loved since high school, so that she will not be lonely after he passes away.
- Follows the adventures of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972 in preparation for a war that could erupt at anytime.
- Xiong a Taiwan gangster gets released from prison when a rival gang lead by a ruthless man looks to expand their turf for a business deal.
- Love grows where it isn't expected in this endearing romantic comedy coming of age movie.
- Teddy Award-winning Director Zero Chou (Spider Lilies) weaves three poetic tales as the lesbians in Drifting Flowers seek their true identify. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity.
- 12-year-old Mei grew up with her grandparents in the mountains, but now lives with her parents in the city. Her parents constantly fight and she ignored at home. Mei withdraws into her own world and imagination.
- A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.
- An unsettling thriller which takes an unflinching look at demonic possession.
- In a musical contest, a letter brings back the memories of Miss Wang (by Sunnie Wang), now a teacher, and reunites her with her high school sweetheart, it seems like it was only yesterday - High school fresher Wang Nai-Yuan finds herself meeting her crush in the flesh one day. Unbeknownst to her, it is all for a bet the drama-class senior Shin-Chun (by Dino Lee) makes with his friends. What started out as a prank slowly binds the unlikely pair together, and Nai-Yuan's life is never the same since then - Shin-Chun's best friend, Hsiu-Nan (by Bii), a music fanatic and also a dreamboat in the school, desperately tries to break them apart while his own pursuit of Man-Hsien (by Patricia Lin) doesn't go as planned. And bigger trouble awaits him as he finds himself frantically working through money issues. As the adolescent boys and girls grow through the coming-of-age story on loss and longing, their fantasies of love are to be tested.
- In 1899, a care-free young man must prepare to take over his family's Chinese banking empire.
- With a single mistake, Rui, a former star basketball player, loses his job and has nothing to do. Collecting parking fees on the street, he's snooping around a dark world. He knows it is not where he belongs, but he has no place to go and nobody welcomes him. Then one day, he finds a woman bleeding on the street, and he takes her to the hospital. On the way, he is kidnapped by a bank robber. At first, he only looks for a chance to get away, but he is increasingly attracted to the robber who lives proudly, cleverly leading the underworld. Through him, a mentor and role model for the dark, Rui faces the brutal criminal nature hidden inside him. But the moment arrives when Rui can't avoid the final showdown with him.
- 22 year old Bai arrives in a small town of Taiwan to pursue a Masters degree in music. She is quickly involved in a weird relationship with her teacher, Lee, which slowly turns into a dominated dependence. One night, Bai's friend, Mu-hung, a young innocent student tells her his feeling and tries to kiss her. That same night Bai tries to commit suicide. A diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder makes Wang, a teacher of the University, decide to help Bai. Wang's old friend Fang, a notorious shyster, steps in. While the entire University takes the side of Lee, Pai herself is confused and not sure if Lee did something wrong. But Wang and Fang decide to get justice for her.
- Cheng-hsiang, a man who is miraculously transported back to the past, sets out to stop his high school friend from making the same mistake. En-pei, whose pursuit of her dreams ended in tragedy.
- A love story spanning through 2 generations in the modern Taiwanese society.
- Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played 'Peach Blossom', a comedy in medieval costume. Another played 'Secret Love', a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home.
- Struggling for years, 55-year old Andy finally declares herself as woman. However, after she shelters a mother with her son, everything turns downhill all of a sudden.
- A poor family struggles to cope with tragedy and mental illness in a fractured society.
- A Taiwanese drug smuggler catches a ride with the wrong cab driver.
- On his way to high school, Huang witnesses the death of Chia, a teenager in their high school, along with Lin and Yeh, the other 2 students from their high school, whom Huang has never known before. Her dead body lies in front of them, and this shocking image ties their fates together, and this twisted fate is going to change their high school lives forever cause they are now partners in crime... Because of all different reasons, Huang, Yeh, and Lin start their own investigations in order to find out the truth for Chia's death!
- Two young men growing up in Taitung like the same girl. In an act of jealous, they injure each other with fireworks when participating in the Bombing Master Han Dan festival. Unfortunately, this accidentally causes the girl to die as well.
- Shui is an old Alzheimer patient suffering from memory loss and behavior changes. Ha, as a personal care taker of Shui, stays together with him and takes great care of his daily lives.
- Centers on the wedding of a cross-straits couple and the fallout that comes as both families try to come to terms with differences in culture.
- A middle-aged man who had emigrated many years ago and now is returning to Taiwan to help deal with the funeral affairs of a friend with whom he has not had contact for many years. But he is encountering many difficulties because he is not a relative and can not sign legal documents. This trip is a journey back to his hometown and about nostalgia; it is also an atonement for a late farewell.
- Ah B (Vic Chou) was once a champion motorbike racer but lost everything in a fixed match. His wife Jiawei (Mini Yang) left him, and he has since abandoned himself to drinking and gambling to pass the days, turning a blind eye to his neighbor Ma Niu (Ella), who quietly admires him from afar. Six years later, Jiawei turns up unexpectedly one day and temporarily puts in his custody a little boy named Bin Bin (Xiao Xiao Bin) - the son he never knew of. This adorable kid manages to melt Ah B's cold hard heart, and the rookie daddy gradually finds the will to pull himself together and recover his wasted life. However, just as Ah B has developed a close, inseparable bond with Bin Bin, Jiawei comes back to take him away with her to the United States.
- A woman returns to her farming village in central Taiwan within seven days of her father's death. Upon her return, she is reminded about the villagers' simplicity and superstition that are part of Taiwanese funeral ritual traditions. After the funeral, the woman packs and seals the sorrow of her loss and returns to her busy metropolis. While sitting in the airport in Hong Kong, however, thoughts of longing for her father suddenly overwhelm her.
- Accidently hired by a private investigation firm, two young men are sent on a mission of collecting debt. When they finally get a 10-million-dollar check from the director of an orphanage, they find that they don't feel happy at all. A battle between their real personalities and the harsh reality begins...
- Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy's accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly digs up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.
- Hoping to fix her family's relationship, Siew Chen takes her father and brothers on a trip to Malaysia, where they fall into an unforgettable journey.
- Following the widespread praise for The Long Goodbye (2010), another film was made in 2012 to spread awareness and understanding of senile dementia and the plight of the elderly. Again produced for the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia, When Yesterday Comes is an omnibus of four shorts by emerging filmmakers Wi Ding Ho (Pinoy Sunday (2009)), Ko-shang Shen (Juliets (2010)), Hsiu-Chiung Chiang (Let the Wind Carry Me (2009)), and Singing Chen (A Place of One's Own (2009)). Well-known Taiwan actors like Chang Chen, Sonia Sui, Amber Kuo, Lieh Lee, Huan-Ru Ke, Chiang Ting, and veterans Pao-Ming Ku and Ai-Chen Tan spared their time to appear in the meaningful feature. In Hsiu-Chiung Chiang's "Healing", Chang Chen takes to the streets to look for his grandfather who has wandered off, and unexpectedly runs into a past lover (Sonia Sui). Wi Ding Ho's "Wake Up in a Strange Bed" looks at the world from the perspective of an Alzheimer's patient (Chiang Ting) who encounters his first love in a park, and returns to the moment of their first meeting. Ko-shang Shen's "Power On" portrays how a senile grandmother who believes she's a singer, her tired daughter (Lieh Lee), and her wacky granddaughter (Amber Kuo) find a new way of living together. Singing Chen's "The Clock" draws a connection between the memories of the elderly and the urban space, exploring how people view fading memories and the disappearing city.
- Yang Ruyi (32), a fashion magazine photographer, lives with her elder sister Yang Ruxing (33), a rational, introverted detective fiction author. Ruyi has inadvertently photographed a couple making madly passionately love. Few days later in a shopping center not far from her home, she finds the woman already married, leading a child and is with a different man. Ruyi shares her secret with Ruxing who is suffering from writer's block. The two sisters begin to observe the couple; gradually Ruxing even writes some of her observations into her novel, without letting Ruyi knows it. Late one night, Ruyi views two people are arguing, but as she picks up her camera to photograph she can only see two vague, dark outlines wrestling one another; Ruyi calls the police but upon arriving, nothing seems out of order. Ruyi is convinced she has mistaken nothing; she enlarges the photo and discovers a third outline looks pretty much like her older sister...
- This is a touching documentary film about some elderly people who suffer from dementia, and their families.
- Ye Nan, a mother belonging to the Dai minority, comes back to her village after living in the city. She wants to take care of the 13-year-old daughter she'd left behind, but the road to rebuilding their relationship is full of obstacles.
- There is a story of a street where prostitutes pick up their customers. Shirley is one of the prostitutes as she has a pathetic past. Her colleagues dislike her but they love her daughter.
- 80-year-old widower Chin-mao lives alone in rural Pingxi and frequents the hospital. His son and daughter, Yi-cheng and Yu-chen, stay in big cities for a living. One day Chin-mao is admitted to the hospital due to stomach pains, and Yi-cheng and Yu-chen have a heated argument about how to take care of their father. An unforseen accident forces Chin-mao to accept his deteriorating conditions and agree to stay in a nursing home. Sickness, death and a suit too old to fit gradually tear down his will to live; even his grandson's wedding cannot cheer him up. The thoughtful Yu-chen has a new suit tailor-made for her father so they can all celebrate the wedding as a family. But Chin-mao just wants to wear the new suit and walks his last mile back home.
- The heart-warming tale of a poor boy turns into a world-class baker, set in southern Taiwan and France. Pao-chun comes from a poor background, and realizes he must acquire a skill to provide for his mother. He leaves for Taipei and becomes an apprentice in a bakery, Finally, Pao-chun overcomes the odds and makes his dream red-bean bun, but disaster strikes when he loses both his childhood love and his mother. However, Pao-chun pulls himself together and defeats bakers from 16 countries and scoops the title of Master Baker in the bread category at the Bakery World Cup in Paris.
- Miss Hui, always attired in elaborate dresses, is the object of Hsiao-Jing's juvenile admiration. The only person who knows about Hsiao-Jing's secret is Zhi-Ya, who wants Hsiao-Jing to be her best friend. Zhi-Ya not only offers her dress to Hsiao-Jing as a gift but also shares the untold story of Miss Hui with her. The two girls grow closer as they follow Miss Hui after class together. However, their friendship starts to fall apart when they learn more about Miss Hui's secret...